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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:25:08 +0100
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To: Josh Di Fabio <joshdifabio@gmail.com>
Cc: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Arrow functions / short closures
From: george.banyard@gmail.com ("G. P. B.")

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On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 18:20, Josh Di Fabio <joshdifabio@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 3:49 PM Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Is it really that important to save two key strokes per closure?
> >
>
> I'd say that the (probably overwhelming) majority of arrow functions
> have a single parameter and, in those cases, the JS syntax saves four
> characters, ignoring whitespace. Another way of looking at it is that
> you have six characters of boilerplate with the fn() syntax versus two
> in JS (ignoring whitespace) for single param arrow functions.
>

No offense but at the end of the day having readable code is better than
shorter code IMHO,
so I don't really see the problem with having a couple of extra
character/keystrokes as this
is more readable then the massive boilerplate we currently have.
However, I can see people beeing fond of the concise syntax of JS

Best regards

George P. Banyard

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